Roland Weber wrote: > Grant Ingersoll wrote: >> On Oct 29, 2008, at 7:38 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: >> >>> Not quite; "receiving PMC is responsible for managing the IP Clearance >>> fast track >>> process through the incubator." >> But how is there IP clearance in terms of someone with a CLA on record >> who has rights to commit? Shouldn't every piece of code by every >> committer on every project have to go through IP Clearance then? > > It's mostly a question of the size of the contribution, and maybe > whether it is something more or less independent or just a change > to an existing codebase. > I've seen someone argue that a piece of AL-licensed software that > was developed by an Apache committer outside of the ASF should > not require a software grant. But current rules of the Incubator > say that it does, and I see Labs as a similar thing.
If it's entirely a committer's own work under the AL, just say so in an IP Clearance notification email. No further research or explanation is necessary, and it has "passed" its clearance. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
